27 May 2013
Technical and Vocational Skills and the Post-2015 Agenda: Let’s Take the Bull by the Horns
By Robert Palmer, Independent Education and Skills Consultant. 2012 saw the release of numerous high level global reports on work and on technical... Read More
06 May 2013
Post-2015 Global Thematic Consultation on Education: What Role for, and What Voice of, the South in the E-Discussions?
By Robert Palmer. The Post-2015 Global Thematic Consultation on Education included a series of e-discussions Dec 2012 – Mar 2013 (on access,... Read More
19 Apr 2013
Post-2015 Agendas: NORRAG Paper on the Case of Education and Skills
By Kenneth King and Robert Palmer, NORRAG. We carried out an analysis of what looked like the gathering storm of proposals around... Read More
15 Apr 2013
Is a Skills Goal Feasible for Post-2015?
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. It sometimes feels like all of us interested in development are getting sucked into the... Read More
08 Apr 2013
The Future of Education Financing - Mobilizing Domestic Savings?
By Dan Bond, international economist and development finance consultant. The recent OECD announcement that official aid from rich to poor countries declined... Read More
28 Mar 2013
Post-2015 Agendas: Northern Tsunami, Southern Ripple? The Case of Education and Skills
By Robert Palmer and Kenneth King, NORRAG. The storm is upon us! We carried out an analysis of what looked like the... Read More
25 Mar 2013
Education Post-2015: Re-Invigorating the Agenda, or Reshuffling the Lobbies? NORRAG Panel at CIES 2013
By Kenneth King and Alexandra Draxler. This panel at CIES was organized by NORRAG as part of its contribution to the discussion... Read More
20 Mar 2013
Coming Full Circle? Reflections on the International Education Agenda for 2015 and Beyond
By Sobhi Tawil, UNESCO. This text summarizes some of the ideas presented at the annual CIES conference (10-15 March 2013) during the... Read More
18 Mar 2013
The 2013 Human Development Report: education, skills and decent work matter; just don’t ask us what any of these mean!
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. I always read the UNDP Human Development Reports with interest, finding that they combine grand narrative... Read More
14 Mar 2013
Brookings, UNESCO and the Post-2015 Metrics Steamboat
By Alexandra Draxler, former UNESCO education specialist. This blog is a reflection on some of the discussion on educational quality post-2015 that... Read More